504 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Pentaschistis. 
axils, scantily ee divided from 2-5 lin. above the base, 
ong ; ultimate divisions and pedicels contracted, 
rather short ; opikelets 21-3 lin. long, straw-coloured, shining; 
glumes lanceolate in profile, finely acuminate, subhyaline, glabrous, 
smooth except on the seaberulous keel; valves linear-oblong in 
profile, body 1} to almost 1} lin. long, sparingly and minutely hairy 
below and along the lower margins, ey 7-nerved, linear with 
ba 
middle, twisted below y and with 2 lateral bristles about 2-2} lin. 
long and eid any side-lobes ; pales as long as the visio: — 
2-toothed or entire; anthers over 1 lin. long; grain n. long: 
Danthonia bivdatada (b), Nees in Si ff Meyer, Zwer Pininsepethe 
Docum. 178, not in Fl. Afr. Aus 
ENTRAL REGION: Calvinia Div. ; gen Bakke Veld, between Grasberg 
River and Waterval River, 2500-3000 ft 
uppermost by far the longest, exserted ; sheaths tight, lower closely 
imbricate, firm, persistent, sometimes purple, all glabrous except the 
ciliolate upper margins ; ligule a fringe of very short hairs ; blades 
very narrow, setaceously involute, subobtuse, 1-13 in. long, rigid, 
glabrous, smooth, glaucous ; panicle contracted, dense, oblong, about 
2 in. long; branches 2-nate, like the filiform axis and the very fine 
branchlets and pedicels glabrous, smooth, swollen at the base, tricho- 
tomously divided nearly or quite from the base, longest up to 1 in. 
long ; pedicels 3-2 lin. long; spikelets about 33 lin. long, pallid, 
shini sed glumes Pe atnaaced acuminate, subbyaline, I-nerved i 
10 lin. his very fine, kneed at 1 way above the base and twisted 
below ; callus obscure, nate hairy ; pales as long as the valves, 
glabrous ; sien ini 1 lin. long or slightly longer; grain linear-oblong, 
terete or subterete, Z lin. long. Danthonia heptamera, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
Austr. 309; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 241; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
Afr. v. 850, 
Coast ReGion: Uitenhage Div. ; hen downs near the mouth of vo 
Zwartkops River, Ecklon § Zeyher eset a: exandria Div.; primeval forests © 
Olif: ath oerey Ecklon i Zeyher, 126, in St. css Herb.! 
30. P. Jugorum (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted ; goat tr 
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